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(No Model.) T. FOY. PENCIL SHARPE'NER.

Patented Mar. 22, 1892.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

THOMAS FOY, OF FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-TI-IIRDS TO JOHN P. NVALKER AND GEORGE F. WVARD, OF SAME PLACE.

PENClL-SHARPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,216, dated March'22, 1892.

Application filed January 18, 1892. Serial No. 418,465. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS FOY, a citizen of the United States, residing atFreehold, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Penoil-Sharpener, of which the followingis a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in pencil-sharpeners.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive pencil-sharpener which may be readily carried in the pocket Without liability of cutting the clothes and which will readily sharpen all kinds of pencils.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pencil-sharpener constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the same in the act of operating on a penci Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

1 designates a pencil-sharpener constructed of sheet-steel and provided with a longitudinal opening 2 and having at the ends of the opening blades 3 and 4, the former of which is adapted to operate on any character of pencil to round the point, and the blade 4 being adapted to finish and produce a perfect point.

The ends of the pencil-sharpener are rounded,

the blade 3 is straight and extends across the longitudinal opening 2, and the blade 4 is provided with a circular recess and is adapted to produce a fine point without liability of breaking the same.

The pencil-sharpener is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction. It is adapted to be readily carried in the pocket without liability of cutting the clothes. It is capable of operating on any character of penoil, and the user cannot cut himself.

What I claim is A pencil-sharpener constructed of sheetsteel and provided with a longitudinal opening and having blades 3 and 4 arranged in the opening at the ends thereof, the blade 3 being straight and adapted to round the end of a pencil, and the blade 4 having a curved recess and adapted to finish a pencil and to operate on a rounded end, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS FOY Witnesses:

GEORGE F. WARD, A. H. SCHANCK. 

